Great recording and a really great show, I love it a lot!

This was a particularly good show. I wasn't there, mind you. I'm just going through 1987 show by show.
Throughout December 1986/spring 1987, there's a ton of energy circulating through the band and the crowds. There can be such a thing as too much energy, IMO. Sometimes the show boils over, and we don't get any trippy bits. The Maine fairgrounds show in 1980 is an example of the 'too much energy' problem, imo - Probably very fun show to be at, and likely a fun show for them to play, but not so fun to listen after the fact.

This particular show never completely succumbs to the energy overload, it just keeps steadily venting pent-up energy throughout both sets. The post-drums 3-song sequence is completely taut. The "Morning Dew" doesn't go on particularly long, and Jerry doesn't make it to his burglar alarm mat in time to sing the final line, but MAN is it a solid version.
I tend to think this is the type of show that the actual BAND wanted to play around this time. They did something goofy ("Hand Jive") for their own amusement, they blew the roof off the place with that "Truckin" containing plenty of Phil bombs, and they even snuck in a lovely pre-drums "Comes a Time".
This could easily pass muster as an official release, IMO.

dropped one here

Feb 12, 1986 was the first Hand Jive played live by the Grateful Dead.....
There are about a half dozen versions played in 86/87.

This is supposedly the highlight show of a very quality Spring East Coast 87' run. The comeback run.
* First and only Willie and the Hand Jive. I really think they handled it well. I wonder why they only played it once?
This is everything you want in an AUD, (generally which I will avoid). Grab it! One of the rare circumstances where the audience source is better quality sound that the SBD. Many of these East Coast 87' Spring shows have crappy boards. Same with Alone and Together Summer Tour.
Who says you can't still download quality GD recordings off the archive? Here it is!

It snowed over 15 inches in DC the day the mail order tickets had to be hand canceled on the no.10 size envelope. I set out for a long walk to the small post office and had my letters hand cancelled. Those who tried to get a ticket or bought the tour ticket book did not get a ticket to this show. Anyway these shows are the best of the tour that year. The playin is so pure with Phil taking a great roll in putting down the bass line. Vocals and playing top notch, with three mistakes that are unfortunate but it's the Dead- Truckin screws up toward the end and at the end of Morning Dew, Jerry is so wrapped up in his jam he forgets to sing the last bit of lyrics and Bobby forgets a chunk of OMSN which is typical-he wrote the lyrics which makes it that much more annoying. Bobby ever the airhead

ssia.
(BTW, Jerry tried to sing the end of Dew but his mic wasn't working)